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From: Jeanne Bunting UK <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] 1901 Census : fiasco PRO and QineptiQ (sic)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:34:32 -0400


I have been forwarding to Barney your kind thoughts and comments. Tonight
I received an e-mail thanking me and asking me to post his "official
statement". Here it is - there may still be some hope.

"I first joined the SoG to make use of its magnificent Library, but was
rapidly persuaded to start work there as a volunteer on its Computers
Committee. I did this because it was fun. I enjoyed working alongside
similarly-minded people who could see the future importance of IT as a
genealogical research tool, and who wanted to do something to further
that. Unfortunately and unbeknown to me there existed a group of
reactionaries within the SoG whose guiding principles appear to be:

1) If anyone is having fun, we'll put a stop to that.

2) Computers and IT are unnecessary, unless they are used in ways which
we decide.

They, an unelected clique, decided to engineer the abolition of the
Computers Committee, and with it much of the fun I gained from working
as a volunteer at the SoG. I now find myself in the position that
volunteering for the SoG is no longer fun and there are better things in
life I can do. Hence the probability that I will resign my membership of
the SoG. This has not yet happened, since if I can be persuaded that the
future is indeed rosier, I may well change my mind."

Jeanne Bunting née Attersley

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